Okay this is getting ridiculous now only about two weeks ago i reviewed the poco
m45g and what do you know it we've got a new model yes we've got the poco m5 what's new well
three things yeah that's it 50 megapixel main camera now instead of 13 we've got a 2 megapixel
camera i know you all wanted that i know you can't wait to take low quality 2 megapixel macro photos
and the chipset it's gone from being a dimension 700 to now the demensity g well sorry helio g99
plastic body plastic materials here it weighs 200 grams and the thickness is about 9 millimeters
so it's a little on the heavy side but it's not too bad so an ips screen that's in this
is 90 hertz 6.58 inches and it's not a particularly bright screen as i covered
because this is the exact same hardware yet again that they've just used again from the m4 pro
it really is the same phone but now we've got the g99 helio d99 instead of with the domain city 700
we have with that model there so that's why they are just so similar and i don't kind of really
know what they are doing so it won't cover a lot of things because it is essentially all
the same but if you take a look down below here you'll see we've got our type c port microphone
single loudspeak 18 watt charging here it does take a long time to fully charge for me it's
over about two and a half hours there up the top we do have a 3.5 millimeter ir blaster
that's really good so there's there is a lot on offer we've got fm radio built into it as well
now that teardrop notch that is of course a five megapixel camera same again and then
the sim tray this is one thing i really do like that of course it does take two nano sims or a
sd card micro sd card sorry that you can fit in there so that's really good you don't have to
give up on one of those sims gorilla glass three right here so i'll just show you how
it unlocks it's very quick it's very accurate so that's about a second i'll do that one more time
so here we go now under a second that's quick so talk a little bit now about the screen but
just briefly because i've covered this all with the m45g but it's an ips panel so full hd plus
resolution and you'll see that when i do move the screen that the colors shift out a little bit well
it's going to a darker white straight away now you see that it's got a bluish tint to it compared to
this model here which is the poco m5s it really has a superior screen this is so much better i'm
talking about two or three times better but it is only a 60 hertz panel so it really depends on what
you want if you want the 90 hertz then that has it but i would definitely look at the poco m5 es it
is a superior phone all round just much better you see that when i move this one see how the white
kind of remains the same like it does go a little dimmer but nothing like this screen you see the
difference so in direct sunlight this can be made out it's over a thousand nits or well over 700 in
sunlight but when you take a look at the m5 now and direct sunlight see how it's very hard to see
and you know it's not really a great screen so that's one thing to bear in mind around the edges
is a little bit dimmer there so there are some key differences now just jumping into a few things too
that i want to go over that yes of course we do get a lot of this and that of course is all of
that bloatware that xiaomi loves to unfortunately put on these so you can have a few apps to
uninstall you're also gonna see this advertising on the rom i mentioned this before my review
of the m4 5g and m5s i think they should tone down on this it's just to me unacceptable putting ads
and of course three gigabytes on this m5 worth of bloatware that that's a lot it's a hell of a lot
but hey you go into settings apps uninstall and it's very easy just to go along and took them all
like i've done here bang hit uninstall and get rid of them so the performance even though we've gone
with a bit of an upgrade here and the camera and the chipset it's kind of not really an
upgrade at all so the m45g gets similar scores here with the gpu and you'll see that with the
g95 that i've got right here that it's a very similar score
let's bring that in there in fact the gpu has better performance so you're gaining a little
bit more with the cpu and the memory and the ui they're not really that much but it's the
gpu you think that's the most important here if you intend to game that i find
gaming on this model is better and i will get on to that later on in the video so don't really
focus too much on those scores especially if you you're thinking about the m45g if it's cheaper go
for that model i mean it's really about the same if you're on a limited budget so the internal
storage however is a bit faster with this model so you can see there we do get some good speeds now
they are not going to be bottlenecking things it's going to be the chipset it's going to bottleneck
audio quality sounds pretty much exactly the same again as the m45g so at least we can of course use
that 3.5 millimeter headphone jack really good to have that so the loudspeaker just a single
loudspeaker down the bottom and i'll give you a sample now of what it sounds like at 100 volume
now the gaming performance if you wanted to play pubg well we just
get the ultra frame rate option however if you do have the poco m5s while that helio g95 gives
us the extreme option it's got a better gpu and it's probably the phone you want to get out of
the new poco m5 releases so let's take a look at the gameplay capped at 45 frames per second
so i've got two kills already even though the frame rate is just 45 frames per second it is
smooth there's no major legs or anything so it will play pubg just fine here and other
games not really a problem but again i'll say it that the poco m5s is probably the one to go for
because you get 60 frames per second better gpu performance and just overall it's a lot nicer
gaming with that super amoled screen even if it's capped at 60 frames per second 60 hertz
this is 90 hertz but we can only run the game at 45 frames per second over to our cameras now
so the 50 megapixel sensor does take a good photo not bad considering the price of this phone there
is a bit of shutter lag so do be careful with that that sometimes if there's a bit of wind
things will look blurry so here are these photos of the yacht the castle in the background a bit
of a storm approaching not bad at all this is the 50 megapixel mode so lots of detail captured it's
an 11 megabyte photo front-facing portrait shot looks alright but it is a little too wide a little
overexposed here the sky is completely blown out portrait shot with the rear camera looking
reasonably good stitching is okay and then this is the worst thing about the cameras is
the video quality so we get 1080p 30 frames per second there is no 1080p 60 frames per second
there is no electronic image stabilization on both of the cameras so the front five megapixel and
the rear 50 for video terrible shaky footage not looking good audio bit rate is 256 kilobits per
second which is good that's more than what i would expect considering this is their affordable phone
and then finally with our cameras low light photography while this is just the normal
shot mode lots of noise does not look good at all and then over to the night shot mode
it barely improves it there is still a lot of noise a lot of grain to the photo all it seems
to do is just tweak the exposure up from the exact same shot so very disappointing with night mode
but then again you cannot expect a lot especially the price point here with this phone and category
phone being just an affordable low end phone so let's start with a positive yes value-wise a lot
on offer great battery life nine to ten hours it has a 50 megapixel camera for the price point
okay that's good but it's not amazing because it's not well optimized
video quality is terrible no electronic image stabilization but we have fm radio 3.5 million
headphone jack micro sd card support we've got a 90 hertz screen and for the price point yes
there is so much going for it great but as in general with all these releases as i mentioned
at the start it's confusing this is essentially the poco m45g why on earth do we have it now just
with some minor changes called the poco m5 it's just becoming absolutely ridiculous now and i'm
sure people are getting confused out there with all these different models all these rebrands just
swapping a few little parts and then slap it out as a whole new model flooding the market i think
this is hurting the brand i really do i don't think it's the correct direction to be heading i
hope that they go back to less releases because more isn't better here fewer models would be i
think better with higher quality software more time to focus on the software instead of having
miui segregated between poco and then the redmi phones and then the xiaomi phones
and then having 50 models per year it's just it's not the way i think to be doing things to be doing
business here but hey what do i know i just now and then review phones hey so there is another
model of course the poco m5s i've got a review of this one which is essentially a tweet rebranded
redmi note 10. yes it's a phone from a year ago and they've just made a few changes to it
that's about it and slap the poco label on there it's a good phone it is a good phone
there's a nice screen in it's got a lot going for it the helio g 95 is actually better than the g99
game's better much better cameras 64 megapixels ultra wide zone even though it's eight megapixels
it even has electronic image stabilization with a 1080p footage so it's the one to go for
if you can afford it but i i do realize people aren't a budget you're after an affordable phone
it's not bad at all but if you find the poco m45g
for a cheaper price go for that it's essentially the same exact phone